Andrew Sinclair

Andrew Sinclair (born 1935) is a British novelist, historian, biographer, critic and filmmaker. He was a Founding Member of Churchill College, Cambridge.

Biography

Sinclair did his National Service with the Coldstream Guards and wrote a novel and later a screenplay based on the experience, called The Breaking of Bumbo (1959).

He directed the film, now regarded as a classic, of Under Milk Wood. His book The Better Half: The Emancipation of the American Woman won the Somerset Maugham Prize in 1967.^[1] His biographies have covered a wide variety of famous people: Che Guevara, Dylan Thomas, Jack London, John Ford, J Pierpont Morgan, Francis Bacon, etc. Sinclair is married to the writer Sonia Melchett.

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1972.^[2]

Bibliography

Non-fiction

• Prohibition: The Era of Excess (1962)
• The Better Half: The Emancipation of the American Woman (1965)
• A Concise History of the United States (1967, revised and updated 1999)
• Viva Che!: The Strange Death and Life of Che Guevara (1968, re-released 2006, Sutton ISBN 0-7509-4310-6)
• The Last of the Best: The Aristocracy of Europe in the Twentieth Century (1969)
• Guevara (Fontana Modern Masters, 1970)
• Dylan Thomas: Poet of His People (1975)
• Jack: A Biography of Jack London (1977)
• John Ford: a Biography (1979)
• Corsair: The Life of J Pierpont Morgan (1981)
• The Other Victoria (1985)
• The Red and the Blue: Cambridge, Treason and Intelligence (1986)
• War Like a Wasp: The Lost decade of the Forties (1989)
• Francis Bacon: His Life and Violent Times (1993)
• Arts and Cultures: The History of the Fifty Years of the Arts Council in Great Britain (1996)
• Great Britain (1996)
• Death by Fame: A Life of Elisabeth Empress of Austria (1998)
• Dylan the Bard: A Life of Dylan Thomas (1999, Constable; 2003, Robinson ISBN 1-84119-741-6)

Fiction

• The Breaking of Bumbo. London, Faber, and New York, Simon and Schuster, 1959; Penguin edition 1961 (cover by George Adamson).
• My Friend Judas. London, Faber, 1959; New York, Simon and Schuster, 1961.
• The Project. London, Faber, and New York, Simon and Schuster, 1960.
• The Hallelujah Bum. London, Faber, 1963; as The Paradise Bum, New York, Atheneum, 1963.
• The Raker. London, Cape, and New York, Atheneum, 1964.
• Gog. London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, and New York, Macmillan, 1967.
• Magog. London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, and New York, Harper, 1972.
• The Surrey Cat. London, Joseph, 1976; as Cat, London, Sphere, 1977.
• A Patriot for Hire. London, Joseph, 1978.
• The Facts in the Case of E.A. Poe. London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1979; New York, Holt Rinehart, 1980.
• Beau Bumbo. London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1985.
• King Ludd. London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1988.
• The Far Corners of the Earth. London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1991.
• The Strength of the Hills. London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1992.

Uncollected Short Stories

• "To Kill a Loris," in Texas Quarterly (Austin), Autumn 1961.
• "A Head for Monsieur Dimanche," in Atlantic (Boston), September 1962.
• "The Atomic Band," in Transatlantic Review 21 (London), Summer 1966.
• "Twin," in The Best of Granta. London, Secker and Warburg, 1967.

Selected filmography

• Under Milk Wood (1972) Director. Starring Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, Peter O'Toole.
• Blue Blood (1973)
• Dylan on Dylan (2002, Timon Films)

References

Sources

• This article incorporates a fiction bibliography from the corresponding Italian Wikipedia article as of 20 November 2010.

External links

• England's Greatest Tourist and Tourist Attraction: Andrew Sinclair's Gog, Magog (1967, 1972), Peter Wolfe. In Old lines, new forces: essays on the contemporary British novel, 1960-1970, Robert K Morris, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1976.